Poland

POLITICAL PARTY

Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc (PiS)
in presidency
Poland
In the 2025, Karol Nawrocki, the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS)-backed candidate, won the presidency, succeeding PIS-supported president Andrzej Duda. PiS took 35.4% of the vote share in the 2023 Sejm (lower house) election, securing 194 seats in the Sejm. PiS won the largest share of votes for an individual party, but the party is opposed by a three-party bloc that collectively holds 248 Parliament seats. This is the lowest showing of support for PiS, which has controlled Parliament since 2015. In 2019, PiS had won 235 seats and 42.59% of the vote. In the 2023 Senate election, PiS finished second with 34 seats and 34.81% of the vote, a decline from 2019, when they won 48 Senate seats and 44.56% of the vote.
In 2024, PiS won 20 of Poland's 53 European Parliament seats and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). In 2019, they won 26 of Poland's 51 seats.
February 21, 2025
"Migrants have already brought diseases like cholera and dysentery to Europe, as well as all sorts of parasites and protozoa which . . . while not dangerous in the organisms of these people, could be dangerous here."
Party leader (2003–present), member of the Sejm (1997–present), former Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007)
Jaroslaw Kaczynski

MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER

Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Jaroslaw Kaczynski
"Migrants have already brought diseases like cholera and dysentery to Europe, as well as all sorts of parasites and protozoa which . . . while not dangerous in the organisms of these people, could be dangerous here."
October 2015
Gov.pl, CC BY 3.0 PL , via Wikimedia Commons

PAGE CITATIONS:

Jan Cienski, "Poland election results: Opposition secures win, final count shows," Politico, October 17, 2023, www.politico.eu/article/poland-election-results-opposition-donald-tusk-wins-final-count-civic-platform-pis/.

European Parliament, "Results by national party – 2024-2029: Poland – Official results," accessed June 6, 2025, results.elections.europa.eu/en/national-results/poland/2024-2029/.

European Parliament, "Results by national party – 2019-2024: Poland – Official results," accessed June 6, 2025, results.elections.europa.eu/en/national-results/poland/2019-2024/constitutive-session/.

Polish Presidency, Round 2, June 1, 2025, IFES Election Guide, last updated September 2, 2025, accessed November 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4696/.

Polish Sejm, October 15, 2023, IFES Election Guide, last updated November 14, 2023, accessed November 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4066/.

Polish Sejm, October 13, 2019, IFES Election Guide, last updated November 11, 2025, accessed November 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3351/.

Polish Senate, October 15, 2023, IFES Election Guide, last updated November 14, 2023, accessed November 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4065/.

Polish Senate, October 13, 2019, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed November 20, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3198/.

QUOTE CITATION:

Jarosław Kaczyński quoted in Jan Cienski, "Migrants carry 'parasites and protozoa,' warns Polish opposition leader," Politico, October 14, 2015, www.politico.eu/article/migrants-asylum-poland-kaczynski-election/.

TO CITE:

"Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc (PiS)," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/PL.